Opening
Lenny (00:00:03): Welcome to Lenny's Podcast. I'm Lenny and my goal here is to help you get better at the craft of building and growing products. Normally, I interview world class product leaders and growth experts to learn from their hard won experiences building and growing today's most successful companies. But today is going to be a very different and unique episode. I launched this podcast about six months ago. We've done exactly 50 episodes at this point....
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Accept praise cleanly
etter. Until then, happy holidays. Happy New Year. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for listening and for supporting this podcast. I'll see you next year.
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.
Ask with curiosity
Ethan Smith (00:38:59): There's two big things. The first thing is the addressable market large, SO'S the...
Turns a moment that could become critique into a question about the guest's thinking.
Low-ego framing
So another example would be if I see my girlfriend hanging out with a guy, I don't know. That is an observed fact that you see in the real world. You're a hypothesis could be that your girlfriend is...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
Ending
interesting than I ever expected, and I'm so thankful for you for listening and for supporting this podcast, telling your friends about it. I'm also really thankful to our wonderful sponsors for supporting this work. In terms of what's ahead, basically more the same. More amazing guests, more topics that maybe you haven't thought about, that you need help with, maybe more amazing topics that you know need help with that I want to help you solve....
The ending makes gratitude concrete, which turns warmth into checkable behavior.